Time-Burst (audio story)

Time-Burst
Doctor:	Sixth Doctor
Companion(s):	Mel
Featuring:	Hebe, Ron
Main enemy:	Patricia
Main setting:	Neepsend, 1864 & 21st century
Key crew
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
Writer:	Ian Potter
Director:	Helen Goldwyn
Producer:	Jacqueline Rayner
Music:	Howard Carter
Sound:	Howard Carter
Release details
Number of parts:	2
Release number:	3.3
Part of:	Purity Unleashed
Release date:	23 May 2023
Format:	1 CD Download 3rd of 3 stories
Production code:	BFPDWDR0603
ISBN:	ISBN 978-1-83868-888-2 (physical); ISBN 978-1-83868-889-9 (digital)
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Time-Burst was the third and final story in the audio anthology Purity Unleashed, produced by Big Finish Productions. It was written by Ian Potter and featured Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor, Bonnie Langford as Melanie Bush, Ruth Madeley as Hebe Harrison, Toby Hadoke as Ron and Imogen Stubbs as Patricia McBride.

Publisher's summary

Tracking the anomaly that erased Hebe from history, the Doctor and Mel find an instability in Sheffield, 1864. Who is Mrs Virtue, the mysterious owner of the new steelworks? And can the Doctor untwist history before a natural disaster washes them all away...?

Plot

Part one

With the TARDIS damaged and thrown millennia off-course, the Doctor is unable to follow Patricia's time track and instead heads to Neepsend, the still point within a temporal anomaly stretching from 1864 to Hebe's time in the 21st century. The Doctor remembers a book concerning Samuel Harrison, a possible ancestor of Hebe's from the 19th century, but he and Mel find that the 19th and 20th century Earth history books in the TARDIS library are being constantly rewritten.

Patrick visits the newly-completed Patrician Works in search of better pay to support his wife, Mary, and their unborn child and argues with Mr Colton about the comparatively low wage on offer. Patricia, owning the business and calling herself Eugenia Virtue, is impressed and offers to pay him to bring together a gang to impede her competitors, but he is shocked upon seeing the cables of the time-suit entering her skin.

to be completed

Part two

to be added

Cast

• The Doctor - Colin Baker
• Mel - Bonnie Langford
• Patricia McBride - Imogen Stubbs
• Patrick - Luke R Francis
• Mary - Billie Fulford-Brown
• Colton - Connor Williams
• Security - George Bukhari

Uncredited cast

• Hebe Harrison - Ruth Madeley
• Ron - Toby Hadoke

Crew

• Cover Art - Claudia Gironi
• Director - Helen Goldwyn
• Executive Producers - Nicholas Briggs and Jason Haigh-Ellery
• Music and Sound Design - Howard Carter
• Producer - Jacqueline Rayner
• Script Editor - Robert Valentine
• Writer - Ian Potter
• Senior Producer - John Ainsworth

References

• The Doctor loses Patricia's time track.
• The TARDIS has a system alarm to alert the Doctor when the Cloister Bell is not working.
• The Doctor mentions Fortran.
• Patrick mentions the Cutlass Company and the Alliance of Organised Trades.
• The TARDIS's causal dampeners have "taken a bashing".
• The Doctor says that it took some time to convince Descartes that to think is to be.
• The Bradfield reservoirs have been being worked on for five years, but Dale Dike Dam remains incomplete.
• Colton describes Patricia as a Galvanist.
• The Doctor once spoke to Catherine of Genoa.
• Good Friday is two weeks away.
• Patrick and Mary are observing Lent.

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• The Doctor did a lot of travelling to and from Sheffield when he was travelling with Evelyn. (AUDIO: The Marian Conspiracy, Doctor Who and the Pirates)
• The Doctor met Mel in the wrong order. (TV: The Ultimate Foe)
• Mel spent six months living with her ancestors. (AUDIO: Catch-1782)
• Mel studied at West London. (PROSE: Millennial Rites)

External links

• Official Time-Burst page at bigfinish.com